Tom Storm

I said goodbye to overwhelm some years ago myself. Ever since I got rid of most of my shit and never replaced it.

Nicely put.

The character of Universal Mind or Mind at Large (Kastrup) is different to god/s, in as much as it might be less personal and not be metacognitive and...

News Limited? Catastrophe is their daily bread. But I get your point.

I am reminded of a couplet Goethe wrote to a young Schopenhauer. Willst du dich des Lebens freuen, So musst der Welt du Werth verleihen. "If you wish ...

I love it.

Ok. I guess we can make all sorts of claims about gods being the necessary grounding for reason or morality or whatever it might be (these arguments a...

That does not demonstrate god/s, nor can you establish what you say about thought to be true. Do you have anything more?

That's the claim, what's the evidence? Which make of god are you referring to, if any?

Did your answer disappear? :wink:

That's a powerful point.

This is fascinating. Big question: what does the following look like in action - Progress in cultural problem solving is about anticipating the action...

I generally don't do sarcasm on line. I was sincerely referring to my completely missing an obvious aspect to this discussion about Enlightenment. I d...

That's very helpful. Thanks. I totally forgot about notions of the evolving consciousness of human beings. Yes. I hold to this too.

Yes, it is a bit and perhaps a digression. I guess your approach to evaluating beliefs is different to mine, I was curious about your approach and whe...

Out of interest, what framework do you use to determine if someone holds acceptable or unacceptable beliefs? Do you hold to notions of progress?

TC, thanks, you're being kind. I do sometimes say terrible things. Often I find that trying to shoehorn complex ideas into a few sentences here ends u...

I have problems with many practices in politics, atheism, religion, science - any belief system that causes harm (as I see it). Now I happen to think ...

That's a classic equivocation fallacy. Who is saying religion is the only source of evil shit on earth? I'm saying it's one of the main players. I hav...

Postmodernism passé? I often wonder to what extent it ever emerged from academe, other than through a few slogans and misunderstood terms. I think you...

Perhaps think bigger. Religions actively shape world politics and nationalism and supports legislative change which impact on millions of people - eve...

Huh? Is there a difference? Eternal life was the term we used in our Baptist Church. Probably from John 12:25 Anyone who loves their life will lose it...

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Nice work. Can this process eventually transcend Enlightenment? Is post-modern thinking an inevitable outcome of such an Enlightenment process? Isn't ...

Yes.

That's a choice. You could equally say how much more precious is an experience which is evanescent. Where does it say an experience is only valuable i...

Pinker is good at making things sound simple. His rhetorical style and approach reminds me of Sam Harris in The Moral Landscape. What is progress? You...

Depending upon the type of believer/atheist, I would have thought that atheists and believers generally talk past each other and don't comprehend each...

:up: Interesting, BC. Thanks.

Cool. I wasn't sure what it was about either.

Just that I am wondering if anyone has any attachments to materialism these days, enough to speculate on these questions.

Are there any materialists these days? Isn't methodological naturalism the most commonly held theory these days amongst the 'non-woo' approaches.

I often find it interesting that some people think this way. I don't see how death has anything to do with a negation of life and any accomplishments....

I think this is really just a matter of personal taste. I was talking to my partner about this. Neither of us is particularly worried by the thought o...

I forget what this thread is about. I think I was simply making the point that of the supernatural matters commonly posited - ghosts, gods, demons, sp...

Sure - sloppy of me. I worked with a guy who says it is proof. That's his understanding of anecdotes in action. I'm all across tic tac reports.

Sorry I screwed up the formatting of my earlier post and deleted it.

I don't think it necessitates dualism. Idealism, a monist ontology might be an equal explanation. But even if it does imply dualism, what of it?

Hundreds of folk say they saw Elvis alive after 1977. Apparently he must have faked his death and lives amongst us. He even showed up as an extra in H...

You're confusing categories - perhaps an equivocation fallacy. We are talking here about feedback regarding a tangible matter of council business, not...

The plural of anecdote is not data. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. That said, I think anecdotes can sometimes be interesting and th...

Nice try but unrelated to the matter at hand. I wouldn't compare a piece of information like that - about a mundane event, coming to me from someone I...

I hear you. I doubt that much of this is held in place by a deep reading of politics or scripture. It seems more emotional, a form of tribalism which ...

Funny you should say that... I can't tell if Chalmers is being serious in relation to most things...

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That's better. Can we think of any examples of this happening that are beyond myth or anecdote?

Depends on the statement. A lot of the time I have no special interest in knowing if something is true or not. I understand that most statements are s...

Saw the video. Gert seems an amiable, practical kind of fellow. As you say, he ends up with 10 commandments (no doubt a cultural preference) although ...

What can I say, he's a sick motherfucker!

Yes, I think this is worth pointing out clearly like this. It's confusing otherwise.